Monday, May 28, 2012

"...try Twitter 411, a service that lets you create your own custom Twitter bot. The Twitter 411 site contains a directory of public apps that users have already created to handle tasks ranging from checking out the day's weather in London, to getting a quick map to a friend's house, to doing some quick calculations via Twitter. Since all of these apps are available for public use, you can even use a little ingenuity to tie them together to do almost anything through Twitter." - PC World about out 411 for Twitter service.

Friday, May 25, 2012

Lets you search for places, show them on the map, see additional info in Google and Bing, copy locations to mobile, see friends activity, check-in anywhere as well as prepare mobile web pages for customized check-ins.

For customized check-in place owner (or advertising/marketing agency, for example) can define all the aspects of check-in - data to be posted on user's wall, data to be returned as a confirmation, Google Analytics code for stats monitoring etc. This version provides own analytics for check-ins too. And of course you still can use Facebook’s dashboard for places pages - mashup creates standard check-ins for Facebook.

In other words – any small business can create public (or private) "Foursquare-like" system for own visitors. Using all the power of Facebook’s user base.

Also this version supports the newest API from Facebook - geocoded postings. Now you can write reviews for Places.

Thursday, May 24, 2012

Our mobile mashup Geo chat has been updated. HTML5 mobile web application lets you chat with people nearby. Anonymously, you do not need any special account. Just a text chat with people nearby (e.g., in the same café, in traffic jam etc.) Check out it from iPhone, Android, Samsung or Opera 10.1 mobile browser.

There is the similar mobile mashup City chat - the dialogues there are connected to some place from Foursquare. Geo chat is almost the same but implemented for any geo place without the connection to some predefined place

Monday, May 21, 2012

Geo Messages approach based on the peer to peer location sharing. We do not need authorization here and we do not need third party servers with location data. Location info could be shared as signature to the standard messages (email, SMS). This approach has got various implementations: Geo Mail, Geo SMS, Geo Twit, etc.

Also you can use mashup in your own web applications. Base URL supports the following parameters:

lat - latitude for placelng - longitude for place place - Facebook ID for place

in other words you can directly set location info (latitude, longitude) or provide a place from Facebook (for places see, for example, Places for Facebook)

Additional parameters:

to - target address picture - URL for picture added to your message name - title for geo-link. By default it is: Location infotext - text for geo-link. By default it is: I am hereredirect - URL for site (web page) for redirection after sending. By default it is the same mashup

Saturday, May 19, 2012

Our mashup Twitter location has been updated again. It lets you publish geo-related information to Twitter. It is not about geo tagging in Twitter. Actually users do not need to geo-enable their accounts. Twitter location is just a way for publish messages (statuses) with some geo-related data. Click on the map and mashup will prepare for you a link to appropriate Google Map.
The goal is very clean – simplify Twitter publishing for messages (statuses) where location info (place) is important.
Mashup does not request any authorization, the actual publishing will be performed via the standard Twitter client.

You can pass the following optional parameters to the basic URL:

lat - an initial latitude (where to show the map)lng - an initial longitudezml - an initial zoom levelt - a message that will be added to any published status

For example, suppose we are creating some information system that collects information for discounts. We can choose a hash tag #discount and use the following URL for publishing locations with discounts:

http://twitloc.linkstore.ru?t=%23discount

(%23 – is just encoded #).

Etc.

A reference to the map will be published in the mobile-friendly format. We are using Mobile map here.

Our mobile web-mashup (HTML5) Geo Twit has been updated too. It lets you publish a link to your current location in Twitter timeline right from the phone (iPhone, Android, Samsung etc). In other words, without the changing your account settings (enabling location) you can simply publish once a link to your location. Some form of mobile check-in for Twitter. Mobile site:

For customized check-in place owner (or advertising/marketing agency, for example) can define all the aspects of check-in - data to be posted on user's wall, data to be returned as a confirmation, Google Analytics code for stats monitoring etc. This version provides own analytics for check-ins too. And of course you still can use Facebook’s dashboard for places pages - mashup creates standard check-ins for Facebook.

In other words – any small business can create public (or private) "Foursquare-like" system for own visitors. Using all the power of Facebook’s user base.

Also this version supports the newest API from Facebook - geocoded postings. Now you can write reviews for Places.

Tuesday, May 15, 2012

Twitter Places, Facebook Places, Google Places etc. Everybody is implementing Places service nowadays. So we simply could not be out of that movement. They left no choice for us. It is much easier to implement it rather than explain why not. So with the help of Foursquare, YQL and Geo Messages we build the following mobile mashup:

It works on any mobile phone with HTML5 browser (iPhone, Android, Samsung etc.). Lets you see nearby places, see info in Google, Bing or Yandex (russian search engine), see local photos from Twitter as well as share your location info via Email, SMS, Twitter and Facebook. You can share your location info in the form of place, rather than latitude/longitude pair. Service does not require any authorization and does not reveal your private data. And if Foursquare's data is not enough you can switch to Facebook places right from this mashup.

Sunday, May 13, 2012

You are welcome to check out an updated version of our mobile web mashup - FrontPlace. Lets you see nearby places and get info about them from Facebook, Google, Bing and Yandex (russian search engine) as well as the nearby photos. Check it out from your HTML5 browser: iPhone, Android, Samsung Bada or Opera 10.1+

Saturday, May 12, 2012

The query 'Where are you now?' is the most commonly sent SMS message, texted over 600 billion times per year in the US. For servicing such kind of queries we suggest Geo Messages approach. It lets you easily share location on peer to peer basic in messages. This approach, actually, could be used in different applications. We are presenting here a new use case.

Our mobile web application Geo Mail lets you send email from mobile with your own coordinates. Application sends location info as a signature to email. It is mobile web, you do not need to download and install code, it is completely enough to know service’s URL (or keep it in the bookmarks, for example). Any your friend can send you his/her own location (and do it right peer to peer, without any third-party server keeping location data).
But what if this URL is unknown for your friend, but you still need his location? Just a simple solution – let us send him a link to this application. In other word we will send him email with link to the geo-located reply. It solves also the privacy problem – it is up to the target party to decide share or not his location. It is what our mashup Where are you now does. All in all, mashup automates the asking and answering of "Where Are you now" question.

It is mobile HTML5 web application, lets you send request for geo-located reply. Short URL for locading:

http://bit.ly/cy6ndx

You can use also the following QR-code:

You can use mashup in your own mobile web applications/portals. Basic URL accepts the following optional parameters:

to - email address for sending
subject - subject for the letter (by default: Where are you?)
reply - predefined address for the reply

Thursday, May 10, 2012

Lets you see the recently published photos nearby. So, you can see local photos as well as search them by the keywords. Mobile web application that works on HTML5 browsers (Android, iPhone, Samsung etc.)

This latest version supports the following features:

1) you can pass geo-points as parameters for the above mentioned URL (parameters are lat - latitude and lng - longitude) and create a mobile link for photos. For example, live photos from London: